Then all but one firm went away.A 22-year-old former public servant and Young Liberal who almost overnight became one of the nation’s most “successful” political lobbyists has been dumped by almost all his clients amid an anti-corruption scandal.
Dylan Whitelaw set up lobbying firm Macquarie Advisory Group late last year after working as a “senior advisor” to former NSW Planning Minister Anthony Roberts, and within weeks disclosed a string of major property clients.
Despite his firm having no telephone, website or office, Whitelaw was hired to “lobby” the NSW Government by ten different companies, including Sydney commercial building company J Group and UAE-based developer Arada, run by Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed Al Qasimi and Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal.
The mass exodus coincides with the launch of a major corruption probe by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) — and follows Whitelaw “disappearing” and refusing to front a NSW parliamentary inquiry earlier this year.
None of Whitelaw’s clients have been named as being involved in any wrongdoing.
Whitelaw is alleged to be a key figure in a secretive fundamentalist Christian group within the NSW Liberal Party, the “NSW Reformers”, allegedly created to influence “public policy”, including by stacking local councils.
Other members of the far-right “NSW Reformers” allegedly included two of former NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s brothers, Charles Perrottet and Jean-Claude Perrottet, and Liberal powerbroker Christian Ellis.
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